Movies released in 1972| 14 Amazons, The | Cheng Kang, Charles Tung Shao-Yung |
| 1776 | Peter H. Hunt |
| Across 110th Street | Barry Shear |
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God | Werner Herzog |
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | William Sterling |
| All the Colors of the Dark | Sergio Martino |
| Amuck! | Silvio Amadio |
| Angry Guest, The | Chang Cheh |
| Asphyx, The | Peter Newbrook |
| Asylum | Roy Ward Baker |
| Baron Blood | Mario Bava |
| Beware! The Blob | Larry Hagman |
| Big Bird Cage, The | Jack Hill |
| Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Black Girl | Ossie Davis |
| Black Gunn | Robert Hartford-Davis |
| Black Tavern, The | Teddy Yip Wing-Cho |
| Blacula | William Crain |
| Blood Freak | Steve Hawkes, Brad F. Grinter |
| Blood Sabbath | Brianne Murphy |
| Blood Spattered Bride, The | Vicente Aranda |
| Bloody Fists, The | Ng See-Yuen |
| Blue Money | Alain Patrick |
| Bluebeard | Edward Dmytryk |
| Body Shop, The | J.G. Patterson Jr. |
| Bone | Larry Cohen |
| Boxcar Bertha | Martin Scorsese |
| Boxer from Shantung, The | Chang Cheh, Pao Hsueh-Li |
| Bride from Hell, The | Chou Hsu-Chiang |
| Buck and the Preacher | Sidney Poitier |
| Byleth: The Demon of Incest | Leopoldo Savona |
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse |
| Caliber 9 | Fernando Di Leo |
| Call of the Wild, The | Ken Annakin |
| Cannibal Man, The | Eloy de la Iglesia |
| Cannibals, The | Kao Pao-shu |
| Case of the Bloody Iris, The | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Chato's Land | Michael Winner |
| Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things | Bob Clark |
| Columbo: Étude in Black | Nicholas Colasanto |
| Columbo: Lady in Waiting | Norman Lloyd |
| Conquest of the Planet of the Apes | J. Lee Thompson |
| Cop, A | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| Cowboys, The | Mark Rydell |
| Crawlspace | John Newland, Buzz Kulik |
| Cremators, The | Harry Essex |
| Cries and Whispers | Ingmar Bergman |
| Crimes of the Black Cat, The | Sergio Pastore |
| Crucible of Terror | Ted Hooker |
| Crucified Girls of San Ramon, The | Ernst R. von Theumer |
| Culpepper Cattle Co., The | Dick Richards |
| Daigoro vs. Goliath | Toshihiro Iijima |
| Daughters of Satan | Hollingsworth Morse |
| Dead of Night: The Exorcism | Don Taylor |
| Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Samuel Fuller |
| Deadly Knives, The | Jang Il-ho |
| Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues | Paul Williams |
| Death Line | Gary Sherman |
| Death Walks at Midnight | Luciano Ercoli |
| Deathless Devil, The | Yilmaz Atadeniz |
| Delightful Forest, The | Chang Cheh, Pao Hsueh-Li |
| Delirium | Renato Polselli |
| Deliverance | John Boorman |
| Demon, The | Kihachiro Kawamoto |
| Demons of the Mind | Peter Sykes |
| Devil's Lover, The | Paolo Lombardo |
| Devil's Mirror, The | Sun Chung |
| Doberman Gang, The | Byron Chudnow |
| Don't Torture a Duckling | Lucio Fulci |
| Doomwatch | Peter Sasdy |
| Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf | León Klimovsky |
| Dr. Phibes Rises Again | Robert Fuest |
| Dracula A.D. 1972 | Alan Gibson |
| Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein | Jesús Franco |
| Elvis on Tour | Pierre Adidge, Robert Abel |
| Eolomea | Herrmann Zschoche |
| Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask | Woody Allen |
| Expansion | Toshio Matsumoto |
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Mario Caiano |
| Fast Kill, The | Lindsay Shonteff |
| Fat City | John Huston |
| Fearless Avenger, The | Kazuo Ikehiro |
| Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 | Shunya Ito |
| Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 | Shunya Ito |
| Filthy Guy | Kuang Hui, Hsu Tien-Yung |
| Fist of Fury | Lo Wei |
| Fist That Kills, The | Wong Tin-Lam |
| Five Fingers of Death | Jeong Chang-hwa |
| Four Dimensions of Greta, The | Pete Walker |
| Four Riders | Chang Cheh |
| Frankenstein '80 | Mario Mancini |
| French Sex Murders, The | Ferdinando Merighi |
| Frenzy | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Fritz the Cat | Ralph Bakshi |
| Frogs | George McCowan |
| Fury of the Wolf Man, The | José María Zabalza |
| Gargoyles | Bill L. Norton |
| Getaway, The | Sam Peckinpah |
| Girl Boss Guerilla | Norifumi Suzuki |
| Girl on the Broomstick, The | Václav Vorlíček |
| Godfather, The | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Godzilla vs. Gigan | Jun Fukuda |
| Gore Gore Girls, The | Herschell Gordon Lewis |
| Grand Duel, The | Giancarlo Santi |
| Grave of the Vampire | John Hayes |
| Groundstar Conspiracy, The | Lamont Johnson |
| Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice | Kenji Misumi |
| Hapkido | Wong Fung |
| Harder They Come, The | Perry Henzell |
| Hit Man | George Armitage |
| Hitchhikers, The | Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian |
| Horror Express | Eugenio Martín |
| Hot Rock, The | Peter Yates |
| Hungry Wives | George A. Romero |
| Hunted | Peter Crane |
| Ingmar Bergman | Stig Björkman |
| Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan | Chor Yuen |
| Invasion of the Blood Farmers | Ed Adlum |
| Italian Connection, The | Fernando Di Leo |
| Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio, The | Eric Jeffrey Haims |
| Jeremiah Johnson | Sydney Pollack |
| Joyce at 34 | Joyce Chopra, Claudia Weill |
| Junior Bonner | Sam Peckinpah |
| Kamen Rider vs. Ambassador Hell | Minoru Yamada |
| Kamen Rider vs. Shocker | Minoru Yamada |
| Kansas City Bomber | Jerrold Freedman |
| King, Queen, Knave | Jerzy Skolimowski |
| Knife of Ice | Umberto Lenzi |
| Lady Whirlwind | Wong Fung |
| Last House on the Left, The | Wes Craven |
| Last Tango in Paris | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| Legend of Boggy Creek, The | Charles B. Pierce |
| Lizard, The | Chor Yuen |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx | Kenji Misumi |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril | Buichi Saito |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades | Kenji Misumi |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance | Kenji Misumi |
| Love in the Afternoon | Éric Rohmer |
| Magnificent Seven Ride!, The | George McCowan |
| Man of Iron | Chang Cheh, Pao Hsueh-Li |
| Man with Two Heads, The | Andy Milligan |
| Mechanic, The | Michael Winner |
| Melinda | Hugh A. Robertson |
| Midnight Parasites, The | Youji Kuri |
| Moon of the Wolf | Daniel Petrie |
| Mummies of Guanajuato, The | Federico Curiel |
| Murder Mansion | Francisco Lara Polop |
| My Dear Killer | Tonino Valerii |
| Naked Girl Killed in the Park | Alfonso Brescia |
| Necromancy | Bert I. Gordon |
| Night of a Thousand Cats, The | René Cardona Jr. |
| Night of the Cobra Woman | Andrew Meyer |
| Night of the Dark Full Moon | Theodore Gershuny |
| Night of the Devils | Giorgio Ferroni |
| Night of the Lepus | William F. Claxton |
| Night of the Scorpion | Alfonso Balcázar |
| Night of the Strangler | Joy N. Houck Jr. |
| Night Stalker, The | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| One-Armed Boxer | Jimmy Wang Yu |
| Other, The | Robert Mulligan |
| Panda! Go Panda! | Isao Takahata |
| Pied Piper, The | Jacques Demy |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters |
| Pirates of Buban, The | Shōhei Imamura |
| Poor Albert and Little Annie | Paul Leder |
| Poseidon Adventure, The | Ronald Neame |
| Possession of Joel Delaney, The | Waris Hussein |
| Prime Cut | Michael Ritchie |
| Private Parts | Paul Bartel |
| Prodigal Boxer, The | Tsai Yang-Ming |
| Pulp | Mike Hodges |
| Queen Boxer | Yue Fung-Chi |
| Ransom for a Dead Man | Richard Irving |
| Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!, The | Andy Milligan |
| Red Queen Kills Seven Times, The | Emilio Miraglia |
| Red Silk Gambler, The | Teruo Ishii |
| Revenge of the Dragon | Joseph Kong Hung |
| Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl | Kô Nakahira |
| Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny | R. Winer |
| Santo vs. Frankenstein's Daughter | Miguel M. Delgado |
| Secret Weapons | David Cronenberg |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi |
| Silent Running | Douglas Trumbull |
| Sitting Target | Douglas Hickox |
| Skyjacked | John Guillermin |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill |
| Sleuth | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| Smile Before Death | Silvio Amadio |
| Snow Job | George Englund |
| So Sweet, So Dead | Roberto Bianchi Montero |
| Special Boy Soldiers of the Navy | Tadashi Imai |
| Stanley | William Grefe |
| Stone Tape, The | Peter Sasdy |
| Street Mobster | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Suns of Easter Island, The | Pierre Kast |
| Super Fly | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| Superbeast | George Schenck |
| Sweet Sugar | Michel Levesque |
| Take Off | Gunvor Nelson |
| Tales from the Crypt | Freddie Francis |
| Telephone Box, The | Antonio Mercero |
| Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom | Norifumi Suzuki |
| Terror at Red Wolf Inn | Bud Townsend |
| Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't, The | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna |
| That Certain Summer | Lamont Johnson |
| Thief in the Night, A | Donald W. Thompson |
| Third Part of the Night, The | Andrzej Żuławski |
| Thirsty for Love: Sex and Murder | Mehmet Aslan |
| Threshold | Malcolm Le Grice |
| Thunderbolt Fist, The | Jang Il-ho |
| Tintin and the Lake of Sharks | Raymond Leblanc |
| Tombs of the Blind Dead | Amando de Ossorio |
| Top of the Heap | Christopher St. John |
| Tower of Evil | Jim O'Connolly |
| Toys Are Not for Children | Stanley H. Brassloff |
| Tragic Ceremony | Riccardo Freda |
| Trail of Blood, The | Kazuo Ikehiro |
| Trouble Man | Ivan Dixon |
| Twilight People, The | Eddie Romero |
| Ulzana's Raid | Robert Aldrich |
| Under Milk Wood | Andrew Sinclair |
| Under the Flag of the Rising Sun | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Unholy Rollers, The | Vernon Zimmerman |
| Valachi Papers, The | Terence Young |
| Vampir Cuadecuc | Pere Portabella |
| Vampire Circus | Robert Young |
| Virgin Witch | Ray Austin |
| Wandering Ginza Butterfly | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Warning to the Curious, A | Lawrence Gordon Clark |
| Water Margin, The | Chang Cheh, Pao Hsueh-Li, Wu Ma |
| Way of the Dragon, The | Bruce Lee |
| Weapon, the Hour, the Motive, The | Francesco Mazzei |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano |
| What the Peeper Saw | Andrea Bianchi, James Kelley |
| What's Up, Doc? | Peter Bogdanovich |
| White Dress for Marialé, A | Romano Scavolini |
| Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? | Curtis Harrington |
| Wrath of God, The | Ralph Nelson |
| Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences | Buichi Saito |
| Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder | Ryuichi Takamori |
| You'll Like My Mother | Lamont Johnson |
| You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown | Bill Melendez |
| Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key | Sergio Martino |
| Yuki's Sun | Hayao Miyazaki |